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Manawatu Herald, 7 April 1894, Page 2

There is said to have been 250 couples at the Hospital Ball in the Drill shed in Wei. lington on Thursday night.

Sir Walter Buller says he has always spoken of the scope and object of the Irnpefial institute as the Industries University of the Empire.

The old chapel in Fetter Lane, London, is to be sold. The father of the late Rev. C. H. Spurgeon used to be pastor of it. The building dates from 1 Mr Selous, the African traveller,' has issued. a.writ against the editor of London TnitH f ox libel in respect of' certain disparaging criticisms recently passed upon him. Mr T. Easton has almost finished his contract for the house for Mr John Strang at Motoa. It is so far advanced that he has been enabled to let Mr and. Mrs Strang enter into possession of a portion of it. The new house is the bast in the distriot.

We understand that Mrs Lewis has sold out her interest in the Manawatu Hotel to Mr Harrison.

We are pleased to state that Messrs Spelman and Speirs have again been successful in striking an artesian flow at Motoa. The well put down is close to the, one started some two or three years ago by Mr Thomas Mitchell, and thus shows that though he was not lucky he was " very near it." The well is on the property of the Messrs Strang and will supply the water for the new brick sheep-dip which they have had lately constructed.

Notice is given that the special train will run next Wednesday to and from Sanson.

On Tuesday Messrs Gorton & Son hold a stock sale at Bulls, to the eutries for which further additions are made to-day.

Next Friday is the date fixed for the Foxton sale, and so far 1,400 sheep are entered.

Messrs Abrahams & Williams hold a sale at Levin on Wednesday.

The quantity of batter shipped for London at the Taranakr breakwater during tho past four weeks was 136J tons.

Notice is given by the Hon. Secretary of the Foxtou Eaciug Club that acceptances are due by 9 p.m. on Thursday next,

The Oamaru Mail teils the following good story :— On Good Friday night a woman entered one of the hotels with a billy, and demanded beer. The publican in a sudden access o£ Puritanic Sabbatarianism, and perhaps a trifle suspicious of the lady's boua iides, took the billy outside and filled it with milk, and, replacing the. lid, returned it. Subsequently on seoiiig the lady joined outside by two prohibitionists, he turned round and patted his own back at his astuteness.

Tenders for cleaning certain drains are invited by the Borough Council.

The Dunbar-Field Dramatic Company are now playing in Hawera, and they purpose visiting Foxtail in a week or ten day?. The Slar says they were welcomed by a good house, and the play " The Ticket-of-leave-Man" was splendidly staged, and every character was well sustained, and the whole performance was a first-class one.

We are pleased to learn that the social and dance at Taikorea iv aid of the new school there was a complete success, some 50 or CO being present,, who came from all parts, and who appeared to thoroughly enjoy themselves. The refreshments were provided by the settlers, and the dance was held in- a building on Mr Boswell's farm, Oahu, 'Taikorea road. We are informed that eighty tickets were sold, and this is expected to find sufficient funds to do the work most needed.

Iv another colimin Mr P. Bartholomew, of the Levin sawmills, announces he is prepared to supply building timber at reasonable rates.. This should, be kept in mind by those requiring timber, as our carters will bring loads in from Levin at two shillings arid sixpence per 100 feet, which is cheaper than obtaining any timber by rail, and it is placed upon the site. All the timber used in the new shops now in course ot ! erection by Mr Jonson has been obtained from Levin, and Mr G. Coley has carted it.

The Manawatu Company are importing Gslb steel rails to replace the old 531 b rails as they wear out.

Two new compound locomotives have been ordered for the Manawatu railway.

The directors of the Manawatu Railway Company have informed the Railway Commissioners that they are willing to re-ar-range their time-table and make provision for their morning train to leave Wellington one hour later, and for the train from Longburn to arrive at Wellington one hour earlier at night. __

Mr John Redmond contends that the attitude of the Government concerning the Irish Question has betrayed the reduced power of the party, aud he advocates an early dissolution.

The. scheme formulated by Mr J. H. decides, of New South Wales, for the disposal of frozen meat at Hamburg is answering very well. Eight hundred cus. toiners purchased Australian and New Zealand frozen meat from one shop on Saturday.

A serious railway collision occurred on Wednesday in Victoria, Cook's excursion train from Adelaide dashing into a goods train near West Footseray. Four trucks in the latter were smashed to pieces. The goods train was shunting at the time of the accident, and the station officials say the signals were against the £xoursion train. One lady passenger received a severe shock, and a number of children suffered slight injuries. Two hundred passengers were on board the- Adelaide train, and for some time the greatest excitement prevailed. The officials in charge of "the excursion train have been suspended until an enquiry has been held.

Mrs Sarah Rowe, who swallowed matchheads recently, died of phosphorous poi. soiling at the Auckland Hospital on Wednesday night.

At the annual meeting of the Manawatu Railway Company the retiring .directors wore rJ-clected. The dividend of six per cent, was agreed to.

The Chairman of the Manawatu Bailway Company stated that tha line had carried in excess of last year, 10,707 passengers, 35,000 sheep, 4,000 bales of wool, 447,100 feet of timber, and upwards of li,ooo tons of merchandise and minerals.

A retired officer appeared before a London magistrate lately to complain of his neighbours, and. . he stated that continual strumming on the piano went on next door, and that the lady and gentleman could ■ne"ither'3ing nor play well. It was a trifle monotonous. He thought he might have stood this, but when the lady and gontlemau went out of town the playing was taken up by the cook and housemaid who kept-the piano going worse than ever, from morn to night. It arose probably from their having nothing better to do, he supposed. . Then a little dog was kept which ran on the dividing fence and barked at nothing. The Magistrate held out little hopes of help, but he promised that an officer should call on the oook and housemaid. Little hope this, for don't officers frequently call upon the cooks and housemaids ?

An English paper says that the Lord Chief Justice will resign on returning from cirouit, and that Sir Charles Russell is certain to be appointed in his place, and that the running for the vacant. AttorneyGeneralship will be between Mr F. Lockwood and Mr Haldane.

The richest man in all Prussia, the Dortmund Croesus so called, is Albert Hoe3ch, Italian Consul, and director and principal shareholder of the Hoesch Iron and Steel Works in that city. He is a descendant of the rich family of the same name at Diinen, which, together with its connections, own a large number of iron works, paper mills and other large industrial establishments. Albert Hoesch has invested most of his property in industrial enterprises. For 1892 93 he was assessed at ail income of 11 million marks, on which he paid an income tax of 430,000 marks. ■■ Last year his income waa 8£ millions. '

Diamonds have been manufactured by the French chemist, M. Gustave Eousseau, by simply heating coal gas under atmospherio pressure to a temperature between 2000 aud 3000 degrees cent. The gas was saturated with vapour of benzine and passed' into a hollow block of quicklime, in whioh a voltaio - arc was kept up. Unfortunately, thegas? leaked, but still; after two liburs;- he fonn<f bath graphite arid black diamonds or carbonado. Aoelytene has given the same produots by ■ the same treatment, and he intends to try condensed qarbureta derived from coal tar orpetrol'eum residuum. The diamonds are very small.

, The figure '! 9 " -plays quite ft conspicuous part in the life of Emperor William. He is the " ninth " King of Prussia, his immediate family consists of " nine members, he was born in the fifty " ninth year of this century, on January 27th, figures which, added,(2 and 7) make 9, or divided • (3—27) give nine as quotient. In January, 18G0, he was made first Lieutenant in Hie First Regiment of the Guards ; in 1879 he completed his studies at Bonn, and was promoted to a Captaincy. He was married on February 27th, and on March 9th was called to the throne.

At the Benedetto Maglione library, which was sold at auction at the Hotel Drouot and realized in the neighbourhood of 240,000fr., a Bible printed at Mayence in 1462, fetched the enormous price of 21,000 francs.

Sir John Lubbock, was in Paris in February, and presented to the Academy of Sciences a communication relating to his experiments, on ants, concerning which interesting insects he has recently made some important investigations. He told an interviewer that he believed ants wore able to talk to each other, for he had fastened a dead fly to a piece of cork and put it in the way' of a single ant, which had gone to the "nest and brought back others. All the ants of a huge colony of perhaps half a million were able to recogniso each other and at once killed or turned out any stranger. Experiments were also tried by making ants drunk I but they were at once recognised by their comrades even in that condition.